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Honest sexual signalling mediated by parasite and testosterone effects on oxidative balance
Extravagant ornaments evolved to advertise their bearers' quality, the honesty of the signal being ensured by the cost paid to produce or maintain it. The oxidation handicap hypothesis (OHH) proposes that a main cost of testosterone-dependent ornamentation is oxidative stress, a condition where...
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| Formato: | Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679075/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19129122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1570 |